Author Archives: Pace Arko

To avoid meaningless divisions

There are a lot of beautiful and clever things you can do with CSS but, because of poor support in the browser that most people use, some of these things require that you insert DIV elements in markup that serve … Continue reading

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So you want to pulverize the Earth, eh?

In a sort of strangelovian counterpoint to yesterday’s entry, Sam Hughes offers hard data and concrete methods of geocide. For example, we have definitive proof that gay marriage will not destroy the Earth. Supervillians take note! EARTH-DESTRUCTION ALERT LEVEL: Be … Continue reading

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In case we forget

Today is the sixtieth anniversary of the use of nuclear weapons on Japan in World War II. Rather than go into the justification or lack of justification for those events, I’d rather point to the fact that there are still … Continue reading

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Fashion modeling and athletics are doomed

We pay some people very good money because their bodies have certain talents in running around in a field chasing a ball or jumping through hoops or some such nonsense. We pay others very good money simply because certain aspects … Continue reading

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He's a pinball wizard

So there’s this 17 year old kid who kicks bottom and takes names when playing Mortal Kombat, Soul Caliber and other games at meets and on the Network. The thing is he’s been blind from birth.

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The Long Downward Spiral of the Space Shuttle

Let's face it. With each passing year, the Space Shuttle grows more and more pathetic. Bold promises for human spaceflight continue to ring hollow. Robots will always be cheaper and do more science. SpaceShipOne is just a joyride–and no, that's … Continue reading

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Well–at least it's about movies.

The B-Movie Comic was recommended to me by the folks of the In Sect. B-Movie is pretty funny! Imagine archeologists, dodering professors, plucky Chinese orphans, goths, a doomed family of Egyptians, jocks and ancient priestly mummies wearing t-shirts all suffering … Continue reading

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Internet Explorer 7, First Beta

Well, everyone else is talking about it and, me being a webmaster, I really should say something but, I really don’t have much because I’m not a MSDN subscriber so, I can’t get a legal copy. Today, I’ve been reading … Continue reading

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The agony of the posthuman condition

In reviewing my site, you’ll see that I have a lot of rants about transhumanism. This is a subject that has been percolating among the big thinkers for many decades (Depending on how you define it, it’s actually been speculated … Continue reading

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Expanding the mission of my blog script

One of the dilemmas I had to face in migrating to my new blog script is that all my old blog entries were no searchable except by the old blog script. This bothered me until I found an article that … Continue reading

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